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[ horse neighing ]

Go get Jess, Mike.

Howdy, Slim. It's been a long time.

Did Marshal Briggs get shot?

We ran into an ambush.

Looks like he's hurt worse than I thought.

Had to fight off whoever it was with the marshal's gun.

He'll tell you when he comes to.

If he comes to.

What happened, Slim?

Not exactly sure, Jess.

Five years in prison didn't teach you much, did it, Cole?

You got it all wrong, Slim. I'm a changed man.

Are you?

Looks to me like you're coming home

in trouble up to your boot tops, just the way you left.

Now wait a minute. I--

Give me a hand, Jess.

Easy.

Mike, have you brought in the wood?

The wood?

Yes, the wood. Now scoot.

The chore should've been done an hour ago.

I'm sorry for all the trouble I've caused, ma'am.

I'm beholden to you for taking care of Marshal Briggs.

You're more than welcome.

I think he'll pull through all right.

I'm glad to hear that.

And that's the truth.

I'd like to believe that.

Only trouble is I don't.

You aren't even trying, Slim.

Hear what the marshal says before you judge me.

Judging you isn't up to me.

Court of law has already done that.

I served my time for that.

What about that rustling you were doing

that I got blamed for?

You think I just put it in the drawer and forgot about it?

No.

And the pain and the misery

you caused your wife and stepdaughter.

And all the troubles you heaped on everyone that lived near you.

I don't deny any of it.

But you're forgetting the last 5 years.

I spent them in prison

regretting everything I've ever done.

I'd like to try to make it up to them.

I suppose it is asking too much for anyone to meet me halfway.

I don't think Slim would deny any man that.

No, I wouldn't, Jess.

Not unless he came riding in with an old friend of mine,

all shot up and a lawman at that.

Why was Marshal Briggs riding with you anyway, Cole?

To make sure you didn't rob

another payroll before you got home?

No.

He came along because I told him

I wanted to wipe the slate clean,

return the $20,000 I buried.

I asked the marshal for help and this is as far as we got.

You really think I'd bring him here if it was some other way?

It only figures, Slim.

If a man dry-gulches a marshal,

he ain't gonna to tote him around to advertise it.

All right, maybe I'll swallow what you're saying, maybe not.

What happens when you return the money?

What happens?

I wish I knew.

If they'll have me, I'm willing to spend the rest of my life

trying to make up for what I did to Ellie and little Mary.

I suppose she isn't so little anymore.

Let me know when the marshal comes to.

I like it better outside. I've been walled up too long.

Well, I guess, you both figured I was too hard on him.

We know you have good reasons,

but we both know that his wife died last week.

After what he's been through, it won't be easy to tell him.

I've been thinking about that myself.

I guess the letter the parson wrote

was delivered to the prison after Cole left.

You mind telling us what's bothering you, Slim?

We were all having hard times just back from the war.

John Cole comes riding in and marries up with Ellie.

Her husband was shot at Shiloh.

She and her little girl needed a man, but not him.

That little girl's grown up now.

And if he really has changed, Mary could use some help.

I've been worried about her,

up there all alone ever since the funeral.

Daisy, I don't think Mary would ask John Cole

for the time of day.

And that probably goes for anyone who ever knew him.

Well, I better see how Marshal Briggs is getting along.

You know, Daisy,

if Slim doesn't believe Cole has changed,

you can bet nobody else around here will.

Yes, that's true, Jess.

[ wagon approaching ]

Visitors?

Oh, it's the Hartleys.

Guess they want to water their horses.

Mike will take care of them.

Is there anything else we can do for the marshal?

I don't think so.

We'll just have to wait and see.

Any change?

No.

Who drove up?

Joe Hartley and his son.

I guess they want to water their team.

The Hartleys?

MIKE: Jess, Slim, they're fighting!

They're fighting, Slim! You gotta stop them!

[ grunting ]

Stop, Joe.

Get him out of my way, will you?

Break it off, Hartley!

Let go of me.

Now break it off!

We've got no fight, Brad, unless you make one.

Are you protecting that no-good jailbird, Slim?

If stopping a beating on my ranch is protecting him,

I guess I am.

Well, you got a short memory after what Cole did to you,

and all of us.

He paid for it. Now leave him be.

All right, Slim, for now.

We're leaving, Brad.

At least there's one thing.

Poor Ellie ain't alive

to have to look at that thieving face of his again.

What did he say?

Ellie's not alive?

She died last week.

The letter telling you about it must have just missed you.

Ellie dead?

That can't be.

I'm afraid it is.

I was gonna tell you when I found the words for it.

Maybe, you shouldn't have stopped him, Slim.

All right, Mike, there's your card.

Yeah, it is.

You're pretty handy with those cards, Cole.

Years of practice, five of them.

Show me another trick. Can you?

Now, Mike, Mr. Cole has been very nice

about entertaining you all evening.

I don't mind, ma'am.

Keeps me from thinking about, well, a lot of things.

Slim has been in with the marshal an awful long time.

I hope he isn't tiring him out.

That wound could open up again.

I'm just thankful he's gonna live.

Briggs is one lawman I'd risk my life for anytime.

You gonna do another trick?

No, Mike, but you are.

Well, I don't know any.

Oh, yes, you do.

Getting ready for bed is one of the best tricks you do.

Now? Now.

Come along, young man, I'll get you started.

Aw, just when things get exciting, I have to go to bed.

Goodnight.

Goodnight.

Goodnight, tiger.

Well, your story checks out, Cole.

You seem sorry it did.

Well, not anymore.

From what the marshal tells me,

you probably saved his life running off that bushwhacker.

Couldn't be sorry for that.

He wants to talk to you.

I'll get you some coffee.

Does the marshal think he know who gunned him?

He thinks it was someone tied in with Cole.

You think Cole's going straight?

Came with him, didn't he?

Thanks, Daisy.

You look troubled.

Something the marshal said?

Well, he figures he's gonna be laid up for a week or two,

and he wants me to go with Cole, bring that payroll back.

You gonna do it?

I don't know, Jess.

It's none of my business. I got no taste for it.

I owe the marshal a favor.

Pretty hard to refuse him.

Couldn't he get another marshal?

It'd take too much time, Daisy.

Sheriff Corey is out of town and a lot could happen

before someone else got here.

If you want, I'll go, Slim.

You believe in Cole, huh?

Let's say I believe in him enough

to give him a chance to prove himself.

Anyway, last time I had my fortune told,

they said I was gonna go on a long trip.

Slim, no one can blame you for how you feel about the past

but you can't live that over again.

It's what's ahead that counts.

Oh, I know that, Daisy.

I'm just not sure if I want to get tied in

with John Cole for any reason,

no matter what the stakes are.

Even if he returns the money

and makes a good home for his stepdaughter?

Well, Slim, you weren't exactly fond of me

the first time I turned up on your doorstep.

Are you two trying to get rid of me?

I guess he thinks we can't run the place without him.

You know, I reckon he does, Daisy.

I meant what I said about going, Slim.

If anyone goes, Jess, it'll be me.

Marshal was saying you might ride with me, Slim.

You made up your mind yet?

Yeah, we'll leave early in the morning.

Thanks, I appreciate it.

I think I'll look in on Mike,

in case I don't see him in the morning.

Looks like you're on the road home again.

Yeah, it does. Kind of hard to believe.

I can't think of anyone better than Slim to have on your side.

Can you?

Well, no, ma'am, guess not.

Except maybe one other.

Who's that?

I was thinking of Mary.

Now I ain't her real pa,

but she's all I've got left of Ellie.

It'd sure be nice if she didn't hate me too much.

Look out, Slim!

An ambush up ahead, get down!

What kind of a trick are you trying to pull?

There's a rifle barrel on the hill,

sun reflecting on it.

The best excuse you can think of.

[ gunshot ]

[ gunshot ]

Afraid he had you in his sights.

Don't be sorry for that.

I owe you.

You better keep it, in case we have any more trouble.

[ horse neighing ]

Well, I guess you can see Mary and Ellie

have been hard pressed to keep this place going.

Yeah, I kept worrying about that,

knowing things would be just the way they are.

Well, they were too proud to let anyone help much.

It's funny, I've been waiting for this for a long time.

Now I'm about half-scared

what Mary is gonna say when she sees me.

Want me to wait here?

Me go in there alone? No thanks.

You better come on before you change your mind.

[ gunshot ]

MARY: That's close enough!

Who are you? What do you want?

It's Slim Sherman, Mary.

Can we talk to you?

Slim, I didn't know it was you.

Sure, ride on up.

I hope you're not mad about that shot,

but there's been somebody sneaking around the ranch

the last couple of days.

No harm done.

You know, when you learn how to sight that long gun of yours,

you're gonna have to figure out a new way to say hello.

I could've have put a bullet through the both of you,

and you know it.

Speaking for myself, I'm glad you didn't.

What are you doing clear up this way?

If it'll make you feel any better, Mary,

go ahead, use my old squirrel gun on me.

I got it coming.

He served his time, Mary.

Did he? For killing Ma?

Her grave's right over there, Slim.

She died trying to keep us alive.

Sure he served his time for what he did,

but Ma's the one that paid for it.

I've come to make it up to you, Mary,

the best I can.

You stay out of my sight, John Cole.

That's the best thing you can do for me.

I don't blame you for how you feel.

But give me a chance to right things.

You just don't understand, do you?

There's no way to make things right.

No way on earth.

Mary, why don't you--

Keep out of this.

If he stays, I leave.

You don't have to do that. I won't try to stay.

Just give me a minute to say goodbye to Ellie.

Then we'll be riding.

I'll check our gear.

Five years in prison might have changed him.

I thought you were gonna check your gear.

Oh, yeah.

There's something you ought to know.

I'm riding with your stepfather to dig up that payroll he buried

before he was arrested.

He's giving it back.

You don't really believe

he's gonna turn in the money, do you?

I want to.

You shouldn't.

Ma believed in him and look what it got her.

I know, but you can't go

through the rest of your life hating him.

Can't I?

You don't believe that prison changed him?

Not a man like him.

He's rotten clear through.

Where'd he go?

You see?

You trust him out of your sight,

and you never know what'll happen.

[ gunshot ]

All right, ease off.Danny!

Mary, you shouldn't have come out here.

Now what's this all about?

He drew down on me

when I was standing by Ellie's grave,

forced me to come here with him.

What are you after?

Him.

I'm after him.

But, Danny, why?

I'm sorry, Mary, I should've told you before,

but I just couldn't.

When I first came out here,

I was looking for him to see if he was out of jail.

To see him? You said it was to see me.

It was, Mary, I swear, almost from the very beginning.

But you and your ma were so good to me,

I just couldn't tell you what it was I really came for

that first night I came riding in.

Then maybe you better tell me now.

I came here to kill him.

If you want to do that, son, you may have to stand in line.

He claims to be Danny Hode, Slim,

I used to ride with his pa, Will.

Yeah, yeah, you rode with him.

You rode with him and you--

Ease off.

I didn't do it, son. Will was a friend of mine.

Ma and I didn't know, Danny.

It was something we weren't too proud of, believe me.

If you were so sure of this, why didn't you bring in the law?

'Cause we were in no shape for that kind of justice.

My ma found my pa half dead.

Before he died, he told her about the hold-up

and how you gunned him.

Like I said, I didn't do it, son.

Ma didn't want folks to know

so she said he shot himself in a hunting accident.

She left it up to me to take care of him.

And that's what I've been waiting for.

Was it you sneaking around the ranch the last few days?

That's right.

Oh, Danny, I wish I'd known.

I might have been able to help you.

Oh, Mary, you don't mean that.

Don't be too sure about that, Slim.

You mean it doesn't make any difference?

I mean the way you feel about me?

How can I blame you for wanting to do in a man

who's more than likely got it coming to him?

I'm not saying you're right, Danny,

but it isn't hard to understand how you feel.

Well, when I started this job I thought it was gonna be easy.

This kind of changes things.

Why? He's wrong.

We can clear this up when we get back.

He just tried to kill you.

For all I know he took shots at me on the trail

and could have wounded the marshal.

I ain't never gunned nobody in my whole life, mister.

Well, that's only part of it, Hode.

If what you claim is true, Cole could be guilty of murder.

Well, there's one thing you do know I'm guilty of,

saving your life.

Yeah, and I've been leaning over backwards trying to save yours.

I'm taking you both back to Laramie.

We'll let the law settle this.

We're so close, a day's ride,

you can take us and the money back.

Sure, just like that.

But I'm not hankering to have a bullet in my back.

Wait a minute.

What money are you talking about?

The money from the hold-up, Danny.

He's claiming he's gonna return it.

Ain't that a laugh?

That money's gonna be returned, Mary,

one way or the other.

Don't do this to me, Slim.

Being so close to wiping the slate clean after 5 years

and then not doing it,

that's pretty hard to take.

That money's kept this long.

Few more days won't make any difference.

Besides, it's beginning to look like you've got

more writing on that slate of yours than I figured.

Now you all mount up, unless you want to walk into Laramie.

It's a funny thing about you.

First you took my ma away from me.

You're taking the only man I ever cared about

because he wants to kill you.

And now you drink the last of my coffee.

It'll be better, Mary, as soon as the law straightens it out.

I want to thank you for the meal before we ride.

Are you packed yet?

Are you sure Mrs. Cooper wants me?

I'm positive.

Daisy started a new war on dirt around the place

and she's sure gonna need some help.

Come on, eat up.

We've got a long ride ahead of us.

DAMON: Nobody moves.

Nobody gets hurt.

Hello, John.

Stand up, mister, and put that gun on the table.

Do it, Slim.

He's killed too often to care who gets it.

Oh, I ain't that bad, John.

But I mean what I say.

Now move real easy or else this gun just might go off.

Who is he, Cole?

Damon Johntry.

Five years ago, he talked me into trying that hold-up.

I did what?

He's the man you both want.

He killed your pa to cut down on the shares of the loot.

Wounded Marshal Briggs and tried to gun you

to get at me and the money.

Now, John, you're gonna give these fine people

the wrong idea about me.

You've got the upper hand now, mister.

But don't plan on it staying that way.

Thank you for the advice, but I've been waiting too long

to get my hands on that payroll money.

It'd be a shame what would happen to you

or anybody else that tried to stop me.

You'll have to find it alone, I'm not showing you.

I think you will, John boy.

I got a fine talking point here in my hand.

One that could spread around a lot of trouble

in her direction, at your tall friend there,

and especially at you, John boy.

You always did talk big with a gun in your hand.

You cut me down, you'll never find that money.

If I do cut you down, Cole,

you won't find that money either.

All right, I'll bargain with you.

You'll have the money, but nobody here gets hurt.

Don't listen to him, Johntry.

He was returning the money to the law.

That's why he's here.

He was what?

Giving it back.

All of it.

That might be hard for you to figure.

But you didn't spend 5 years in the lock-up.

I'm starting over, going straight.

I don't believe it.

I don't give a hang what you believe.

That's why I'm willing to bargain their lives

against that money.

It don't matter now,

but he may be telling the truth.

I got the same story from both of them.

What's your interest in this?

I'm Danny Hode.

I reckon you knew my pa, Will Hode?

COLE: That's right, Johntry.

Your old enemy come back to haunt you.

Oh, no, not me, Cole.

You're the one that killed him.

Let's see you lie out of it now, Cole.

He was there.

That's what I've been trying to tell you, boy.

He killed your pa, not me.

Somehow that just don't add up.

Especially since you was the one to hide the money.

Yes, sir, killing you is just dying to be done.

This sounds real interesting.

Move over here, son, I got an idea.

Now I'll do the bargaining, Cole.

Well, you're holding the gun, go ahead.

As long as I got to keep you and your friends alive

in order to get the money, I'm gonna need some help.

Now you throw him with me, son,

I'll give you your pappy's share.

I liked old Will.

And I'll be glad to help out his boy.

Don't do it, Hode.

You'll regret it the rest of your life.

What about Cole?

That's part of the bargain.

Those two go free.

You get him.

I'm not looking to bail out this way.

I know.

I wasn't thinking about you.

All right, Johntry,

I'll show you where the money's hid.

But before we get it, Slim and Mary ride off free.

And you can do what you want.

Sounds fair enough.

Of course, if you and me are gonna strike up

a little partnership, you're entitled to a say in it.

As long as I get him, the rest don't matter.

Just so as the girl don't get hurt.

You're gonna have to help me watch him all the time.

It'll be a pleasure.

This puts you on my side for sure.

And don't wait for an invite if you have to use it.

A bullet in the leg will slow any man down.

All right, Cole, let's get organized.

We're riding.

It's close to 30 miles.

We'll have to sleep out on the trail.

That's better than waiting around here.

Somebody might come by.

Sorry you got hooked into this.

A lot can happen in a day's ride.

All right, outside.

Keep an eye on him, son.

Get moving.

You must have known Johntry would be coming after you.

Why do you think I wanted the marshal's help?

Couldn't figure on young Hode, though.

Are you gonna do what you said?

Lead them to where you hid the money?

Yeah, unless we can jump them before we get there.

You willing to try?

You can bet on that.

Cut the talk!

Looks like you and me have been hating the same man

for the last 5 years.

Tell you the truth, I ain't hardly thought of nothing else.

Except maybe you.

Is that why you kept riding out without saying goodbye?

I didn't know what else to do.

Felt like I was being sawed back and forth

over a picket fence, hating him...

loving you.

But I guess I wasn't really much good at either one, was I?

Oh, I'm not complaining.

I never did expect him to be like he is, though.

I wish I could make you understand

that what you want to do isn't right,

but I don't know how to tell you.

Especially when I wished him dead myself.

Here, let me help you.

Thanks.

Hey, Danny, you don't really figure

your new partner is gonna give you

a share of that money, do you?

Don't let him rattle you, son.

He's just trying to split us.

Slim's right, Danny.

Johntry killed your pa, then came after me.

But I got away from him with the money.

[ Damon laughs ]

Cole, you maybe have changed in some ways,

but you are still the world's best liar.

I'll say amen to that.

He sweet talked poor Ma into marrying him,

and made her life a wrecked pen full of trouble.

I said I was wrong, Mary.

What more do you want?

I want you to suffer, the way she did.

Mary, if he's willing to risk his life

so you and I can go free, isn't that enough?

I don't know.

These last 5 years just about convinced me

that life isn't worth living.

I'd like to prove to you it is, Mary.

I'll be getting me some money now,

part of it ought to be yours.

You got as much right to it as I have.

Now hold on there, son.

You do what you want with your share,

but there ain't gonna be no three-way split.

Ain't nobody talking about your half, Johntry,

so back off.

How about it, Mary, you think you might want to

ride with me when this is over?

Might help make up for some lost time.

It's owed us, don't you think?

Don't listen to him, Mary.

You'll find nothing good in stolen money.

Nobody ever has.

I know what it's like to have nothing,

to always be doing without.

I guess if Danny wants to try it another way,

I won't be the one to stop him.

You couldn't be more wrong, Mary.

What Slim says is right.

Believe me, I know.

You're advising me to stay on the straight

and narrow, is that it?

Or worse things could happen to you.

They already have.

Then listen to what I'm saying.

I made a mess out of my life.

Don't make one out of yours.

Sure, Danny,

we'll ride together and nothing will stop us.

Nothing at all.

You can do that,

knowing that Hode's gonna gun him down?

If that happens to be the way it goes,

all Danny will be doing is saving somebody else a trouble.

Danny!

Break it up.

Let him go.

Go on, get your iron before you lose it again.

And if you fall asleep on watch once more,

I'll put a bullet into you myself.

If you were trying to kill him, you didn't miss it by much.

He'll live.

And your mother would be real proud of you, Mary.

Thanks, Mary.

Leave her be.

Your dreaming ways have caused us enough trouble.

And give me that.

I'll take over the watch myself.

You settle down, too, miss.

I don't want to hear no more out of any of you.

You're pushing too hard, Johntry.

I'm gonna have to reset this bandage.

All right, just don't waste any time about it.

Rest your horses.

Johntry close?

He can't hear us.

I'm not feeling as bad as I make out.

Had to talk to you.

Make it fast.

We'll be riding into Fire Canyon before long.

I hid that money alongside on the border in sulphur pits.

That's a good place to burn to death.

Not if you know your way in and out.

It's a good hiding place.

Indians are scared of it, white man can't stand the fumes.

Hold this.

You sure you know what you're doing leading us in there?

There's another way out of that fire pit,

kind of a crevice cut in between the rocks.

Once you're in the clear,

follow the gully out behind it and you'll see the opening.

Are you sure?

Only one place I've ever been

that just had one way out of it, Slim...

prison.

You jump Johntry and I'll handle the boy.

All right, on your feet, Sherman.

All right, we're ready.

Are you set?

I'm counting on you, Slim.

That goes both ways.

How much further?

Few minutes, no more than that.

You better be right,

or the both of you will be buzzard bait.

Move out.

[ water bubbling ]

We got to go in there?

If you want the money.

You'll have to be on foot.

All right, Cole, but I'm warning you.

You try something, your bones will be alongside them others.

You forgetting our bargain?

Girl don't want to leave.

Why worry about him?

Slim came out here as a favor to me.

So you better get used to the idea.

I'm not showing you that money

unless he rides out free before we go in.

That stretch in the pen sure softened you up, didn't it?

You ever try arguing with a rock pile?

I reckon that don't mean nothing to me.

It'll take him more than a day to get help.

The law knows what you're up to.

You'll be on the run anyway.

You better be good at running, Johntry,

the law will be after you.

Been at it ever since I can remember.

You come after me, I'll give you a few lessons.

If I come after you, it won't be for lessons.

Fair enough.

If I ever see you again,

there will be a bullet waiting for you.

Hey, Mary, you better ride with me.

It's not too late.

I'm sorry, Slim.

I've been doing without too long,

I can't pass up this chance.

Ride, mister,

and if you want to stay alive, keep riding.

[ cocks gun ]

You use that, Johntry, you'll never see the money.

Make sure he don't come back.

You're going in alone with Cole?

Don't worry, I'll save him for you.

Keep an eye on the girl, too.

Let's go, John.

Do you think you can trust Johntry?

I don't think I can trust anyone.

I didn't mean that.

Trusting you always come easy.

That's what always made me feel so guilty.

I never did say half the things I wanted to, to you.

Oh, Danny, we've wasted so much time.

I wonder if we're doing what we really want.

I mean, if it don't come easy to us now,

tomorrow ain't gonna make it any better, is it?

I wish I knew.

All that talk about running...

I don't know if I'm gonna be able to handle it.

I ain't had much experience at that line either.

I guess we could try.

Only--

Only some things don't seem as important

as they used to, do they?

I don't know.

You get so tired of hating,

you just want to wake up some morning

and be like everybody else.

Mary, listen.

I never cared about anyone in my whole life

the way I care about you.

And I don't want to lose it.

Not for money, not for anything.

You better know where you're going, Cole.

I reckon I do.

Now this ain't too good a place to get lost in.

Once we do this, there won't be any turning back,

you know that, don't you?

I know.

Slim hasn't much of a head start.

We can follow his trail and catch up with him.

I wonder what he's gonna think

when we come riding in empty-handed.

No money, no vengeance,

none of the things we said we wanted so bad.

A woman has the right to change her mind.

I hope Slim knew I was praying I could change yours, too.

I kind of had the feeling

I was being wrapped around somebody's little finger.

[ cocks gun ]

You make one more move like that, it's gonna be your last.

You want the money?

It's right up ahead.

All right, move out, don't get out of line.

The strongbox ought to be right about here.

Never mind the talk, just show me.

Oh, that's Slim's horse, all right.

He sure didn't get very far, did he?

Look.

Fresh tracks.

He must have gone in there.

I wonder where it leads to.

I think I know.

Pa must have known about it.

Slim's gonna help him with Johntry.

That's why he left without arguing.

That adds up.

Mary, you wait here.

Danny.

Don't worry, I'll be careful.

There she is, just the way I left it,

except for a little rusting

Move over there.

[ gunshot ]

Mighty glad you were telling the truth, Cole.

For once, mighty glad.

Too bad you and nobody else

is going to be able to share this money with me.

I kind of had a feeling

young Hode would never get his split.

He'll get his,

just like you and me split with his old man.

Now fill up them saddle bags.

Hold it, Johntry!

[ Damon screaming ]

At least it was quick.

Likely didn't even know what happened.

And he said he was gonna have a bullet waiting for you.

Shows you how wrong a man can be.

We were just about to put the money in the saddle bag.

Let's get out of here.

You, uh, planning on using that?

If I have to.

That's just it, you don't have to.

You can leave here and be a free man.

Sure, free and broke, but not quite free, Slim.

You heard Johntry say that both him and me

took care of Will Hode.

You wouldn't forget that soon.

That honest streak in you is a yard wide.

If you take that money, you'll be running harder than ever.

Sure, but the running will be easy.

I'll have your horse and a good head start

on my way to Canada before Mary and young Hode

find out they need help.

Now you're sounding like the old John Cole

I used to know.

How long have you been planning this?

Five long years now, Slim.

I figured when I was in the pen

it'd be easier to have a lawman riding with me,

instead of following along behind.

Oh, he was gonna help me with Johntry, too,

but you took care of that.

You put on a good act.

Funny thing about that, I was getting so

I almost liked it, being respectable.

It would've been the worst mistake I ever made--

[ cocks gun ]

[ gunshot ]

That was close.

Well, he got what he came after.

[ church bell tolling ]

[ laughter and chatter ]

[ screaming ]

She sure makes a pretty bride.

All brides are pretty, Jess.

Didn't you know that?

Well, to tell you the truth, Daisy,

I've never been to a wedding.

Oh, I've seen them before,

but never real up close like this.

Really? I never would've known it.

GIRLS: He's cute.

[ girls giggling ]

What's so dadgum funny?

Uh, that, Jess.

Oh, what's so bad about a man holding flowers?

Well, nothing, except those are special flowers.

Well, what's so special about them?

If I hadn't caught them, they'd have fell in the dirt.

It's a bridal bouquet.

If you hadn't reached up,

one of the bridesmaids would have caught it.

Maybe he'll marry all three of us.

He really doesn't know what he's done.

Well, I still don't see what difference it makes.

Well, Jess, you see the person who catches those flowers is

supposed to get married next.

Are you kidding me?

No.

[ girls laughing ]

Boy, that was close.

Did I get rid of it in time?

Well, did I?

I don't know.

[ laughter ]